Erna & Alden's Webpage on Biofuels
Keyword

  1. Energy security
  2. Fossil fuels
  3. Biomass heating systems
  4. Biofuel
  5. Greenhouse gas
  6. Biomass
  7. Transesterification
  8. Agrofuel
  9. Biodiesel

Key phrases
  1. We all need to access cheap energy, but the resources for it are unevenly distrubuted between countries.
  2. Fossil fuels or mineral fuels are hydrocarbons found in the earth's crust.
  3. Refers to the various methods used to generate heat from biomass.
  4. Biofuel is defined as liquid or gas transportation fuel derived from biomass
  5. Components of the atmosphere that contribute to the greenhouse effect.
  6. Living or dead biological matter, often plants grown as fuel
  7. The process of exchanging an alcohol by another alcohol
  8. Another word for biofuel.
  9. The oil that has been modified in a chemical process called transesterification in which the glycerine is removed from the oil.

Key Images

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